ErostrateDiscovering the world's cultures, one work at a time
My list 0

How the works were chosen

Russia

Author · Russia

Anton Chekhov

Died in 1904

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was born in Taganrog; his paternal grandfather, a serf, had bought his freedom. After his father's bankruptcy, he supported his family by writing humorous pieces under various pseudonyms, while studying medicine in Moscow, where he qualified as a doctor in 1884. He often treated peasants free of charge. In 1890, he crossed Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin, from which he drew a documentary work. Suffering from tuberculosis, he settled in Yalta and died in 1904 at Badenweiler, in Germany.

In the catalogue 1